...The CT Film Festival ~ "Dare Not Walk Alone" Documentary. Director: Jeremy Dean. We all know about Selma and Birmingham, but it is a little-discussed fact that St. Augustine, Florida was the center of great civil unrest and was instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1967. The effects of this conflict are still very apparent in today's St. Augustine, where although it is not official, segregation and prejudice still hover over the lives of many African-Americans.

A través de una carta que el autor del artículo dirige a los implicados en el proceso de promoción del desarrollo local limpio solidario e identitario del Grupo de Estudios Comparados Euroafricanos y Euro latinoamericanos, aquél se propone convocar a los potenciales lectores del artículo a un debate sobre alternativas al defetismo que impacta en la actualidad y que el mismo y otros autores más influyentes en la misma, consideran la confrontación más urgente, para potenciar otras formas de producción, no solamente posibles, sino cada vez más necesarias, en un entorno perfilado en la crispación…

News Junkie Scott's Blog (9/19/06)

Chimpy W. Bushitler's sick Republican friends harrass veterans.

The recent correspondence on taking out Bob Avakian’s 7 Talks, especially into proletarian communities, was very important (see Revolution #60 and #61 for articles on this). One thing that comes through: there is nothing else speaking to the how-to-live-and-die questions that are on people’s minds….

...The CT Film Festival ~ "The French Guy"(Feature Director): Ann Marie Fleming. Have you ever heard indecipherable sounds coming from the other side of a wall? Were they cries of joy or pain that you heard? Such is the premise for Ann Marie Fleming's wonderfully absurdist comedy The French Guy. Living next door to just such a racket is our titular character, a French painter who simply wants to finish his next masterpiece - but the noises keep getting louder. What is going on over there?

The Miai Herald said what the others newspapaer did not

News Junkie Scott's Blog (9/17/06)

Since the end of WWII, the U.S. policy in the Middle East has created only “more anger-more hatred for our county,” said Kevin Zeese. Speaking on 09/13/06, at the Palestine Center, in D.C., Zeese ripped the Bush-Cheney Gang for giving Israel the “green light” to terrorize Lebanon for 33-days. Zeese also took it to task for abandoning the Palestinians and for its hostile attitude towards Iran. “It’s time to try diplomacy in the Middle East,” he said.